The Joke about Hilary Spite - CBC Mystery Project - Christopher Bidmead Audiobook

Written by Christopher Bidmead
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Dramatization

‘The Joke About Hilary Spite’
by Christopher Bidmead.

A repeat broadcast on CBC’s ‘The Mystery Project’.
Originally boradcast on the BBC in 1970.

A fast-moving mysterious adventure by Christopher Bidmead recounts the outrageous happenings when a clinically depressed young woman with a particular talent gets mixed up with an assortment of evil guys. The title role features Angela Pleasence.

Episode 1 - April 23, 2004
Getting out of hospital after her latest suicide attempt, Hilary encounters a randy surgeon and a helpful psychiatrist. One tries to date her and the other makes a peculiar phone call to a harpsichordist (?) Then she meets a young man with a Rolls-Royce. Their drive together is more than she bargained for; and there is more intrigue to follow

Episode 2 - April 30, 2004
The mysterious Mr. Beresford makes it clear that he needs Hilary’s computer skills; and he has one persuasive argument to guarantee her co-operation. He knows what happened to Hilary’s father. The girl doted on her parent and believes him to be dead. Beresford says ‘not true’, that he is still alive. But if Hilary is to find out anything more she must help crack a secure CIA file.

Episode 3 - May 7, 2004
The quick-talking Cannon appears to be suspected of some sort of wrong-doing and is isolated away from Hilary. Beresford supplies a new control to work with the girl - a man named Mortimer. Hilary’s reaction is that he is a person who deals in lies, even to talking about his school history. She really does not like this guy - but where is Cannon?

Episode 4 - May 14, 2004
Hilary, with Mortimer, is tapping into a secure phone cable where it crosses the Thames on a bridge as a train comes rushing past them. Hilary takes the plunge into the river carrying the tape she has recorded. Searchers in a boat try to retrieve her but she escapes, only to be stopped by a man on the river bank with a gun, who wants the tape. She tricks him and eludes capture. The only sanctuary she knows is Cannon’s flat.

Episode 5 - May 21, 2004
Hilary falls into the hands of a competing organization. (It seems there are at least three groups vying to get hold of Hilary and the file she has purloined). But Cannon knows where the baddies have taken her. He gets inside and sets her free. They are chased and end up on the roof of the building. Things looking very bleak, when suddenly a helicopter hovers above them and drops a ladder. Is this rescue or new trouble?

Episode 6 - May 28, 2004
After being snatched off the roof by helicopter amid a hail of gunfire, Hilary and a wounded Cannon meet their newest captor; an old ex-member of the Hitler Youth named Maximillian. And while Beresford teams up with another organization to retrieve her, Hilary finds herself being tested once again. The hardest test of all, and this time it leads to……

No, you’ll have to be there to learn the Joke.